Lateral Thinking Puzzles

32. The Poor One Man

ONE MAN SHOT DEAD IN TRAGIC ACCIDENT

This headline, and many like it, appeared in a lot of newspapers last year. Even though this death was mourned for a long while, there was no police investigation and no arrest. Why?

Submitted by zozee · Added 11 September 2013 · Updated 31 July 2026

Solution:

The man was shot dead in a tragic accident while participating in a hunting activity. Since it was an accident and there was no foul play involved, there was no need for a police investigation or arrests.


Comments (13)

shah 28 September 2013

maybe that man was a soldier who died in battle-front from enemy gunfire.

siddhis 29 September 2013

The man shot himself in an accident- there was no one to arrest and no trial to be held.

lastochka101 7 October 2013

The man shot himself in an accident- there was no one to arrest and no trial to be held.

MrHolmes 7 October 2013

maybe that man was a soldier who died in battle-front from enemy gunfire.

aravind1335 22 October 2013

ONE MAN SPOT IN A TRAGIC ACCIDENT

merman 27 October 2013

Suicide

kamran 1 November 2013

a man shot a dead person who met with an accident

V7Theory 1 November 2013

The man wasn't shot with a gun, instead, someone had shot a photo of him as he lie dead.

This, of course, was due to an obvious accident, such as an elephant tripped and bumped into him, shoving him head first into a bees nest. Fortunately, he was wearing a bee keeper mask, but the noise from the bees caused him to panic due to his over sensitive hearing thus in his sprint away from the nest he accidentally jumped in between two people and their bacon, thus he was accidentally eaten alive. Can you blame someone for bacon? I say no.

snoyes 30 December 2013

"One Man" was a horse.

buzzbot 30 December 2013

He had committed a crime and had been sentenced to death by firing squad.

oncemoreforluck 10 June 2015

This, of course, was due to an obvious accident, such as an elephant tripped and bumped into him, shoving him head first into a bees nest. Fortunately, he was wearing a bee keeper mask, but the noise from the bees caused him to panic due to his over sensitive hearing thus in his sprint away from the nest he accidentally jumped in between two people and their bacon, thus he was accidentally eaten alive. Can you blame someone for bacon? I say no.

interesting answer.

hats 4 July 2015

A man shot dead in fatal accident, so, if it was an accident, there is no need for an investigation on the cause of the death: it was an accident

thupset 10 March 2017

in the title it says the poor one man, if it was an actual man it would say the poor man. therefore it is obvious, this is an alternate universe where harambe was named one-man

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